Kars Alfrink 🟥
@kars.leapfrog.nl
Designer turned design researcher. Postdoc at TU Delft. Exploring contestable AI. www.contestable.ai
Had a great time presenting on designing AI work tools that preserve worker autonomy at the Enterprise UX conference today. My slides are available on my website, as usual. contestable.ai/wp-content/u...
November 21, 2025 at 11:12 AM
Had a great time presenting on designing AI work tools that preserve worker autonomy at the Enterprise UX conference today. My slides are available on my website, as usual. contestable.ai/wp-content/u...
I had a great time presenting at the Politics of AI symposium at Goldsmiths. Many thanks to Dan McQuillan, Fieke Jansen, Jo Lindsay Walton, and Pat Brody for inviting me and putting together such a thought-provoking program.
September 19, 2025 at 9:53 AM
I had a great time presenting at the Politics of AI symposium at Goldsmiths. Many thanks to Dan McQuillan, Fieke Jansen, Jo Lindsay Walton, and Pat Brody for inviting me and putting together such a thought-provoking program.
Key takeaway slide, by way of a TLDR.
June 12, 2025 at 6:51 PM
Key takeaway slide, by way of a TLDR.
Had a wonderful time sharing my ideas on how to approach learning in a world that includes GenAI machines, from a design perspective, at LXDCON’25. A big thank you to Niels Floor and Shapers for the invitation. You can find my slides on my website here: contestable.ai/presentations/
June 12, 2025 at 3:29 PM
Had a wonderful time sharing my ideas on how to approach learning in a world that includes GenAI machines, from a design perspective, at LXDCON’25. A big thank you to Niels Floor and Shapers for the invitation. You can find my slides on my website here: contestable.ai/presentations/
Bonus: the slide I used to illustrate my brief talk during the salon.
June 10, 2025 at 7:22 AM
Bonus: the slide I used to illustrate my brief talk during the salon.
As always, it was a great pleasure to present my contribution to the RIOT 2025 publication, the essay "Embodied AI and Collective Power: Designing Democratic Generative Things" at the ThingsCon Salon last Friday.
June 10, 2025 at 7:22 AM
As always, it was a great pleasure to present my contribution to the RIOT 2025 publication, the essay "Embodied AI and Collective Power: Designing Democratic Generative Things" at the ThingsCon Salon last Friday.
Finished the march by making lots of noise in the center of Delft. Downright therapeutic. Stop the cuts, people. Just stop all of them. #woinactie
April 24, 2025 at 1:23 PM
Finished the march by making lots of noise in the center of Delft. Downright therapeutic. Stop the cuts, people. Just stop all of them. #woinactie
TU Delft now marching into the city center. Stop the cuts. #woinactie
April 24, 2025 at 11:46 AM
TU Delft now marching into the city center. Stop the cuts. #woinactie
Proper turnout at TU Delft to strike against the cuts. #woinactie
April 24, 2025 at 10:37 AM
Proper turnout at TU Delft to strike against the cuts. #woinactie
Hey ho, off to strike we go. Today it’s our turn at TU Delft to oppose the cuts to higher education. Hope to see many of my colleagues there. #woinactie
April 24, 2025 at 6:37 AM
Hey ho, off to strike we go. Today it’s our turn at TU Delft to oppose the cuts to higher education. Hope to see many of my colleagues there. #woinactie
The future of work? I think I know where that’s heading. (My meme craft is at dad joke levels. Apologies.)
April 10, 2025 at 8:44 AM
The future of work? I think I know where that’s heading. (My meme craft is at dad joke levels. Apologies.)
Last Friday, I had the pleasure of delivering a half-day lecture on designing responsible AI for TU Delft Industrial Design Engineering master students.
April 2, 2025 at 9:12 AM
Last Friday, I had the pleasure of delivering a half-day lecture on designing responsible AI for TU Delft Industrial Design Engineering master students.
Is that who I think it is? :troll:
March 5, 2025 at 9:27 AM
Is that who I think it is? :troll:
Had a lovely time presenting my work on contestable AI at data ethics consultancy The Green Land yesterday. The slides, as usual, are up on my website. It includes a final section with new material I am developing on design and the politics of AI infrastructure. contestable.ai/presentations/
February 20, 2025 at 7:55 AM
Had a lovely time presenting my work on contestable AI at data ethics consultancy The Green Land yesterday. The slides, as usual, are up on my website. It includes a final section with new material I am developing on design and the politics of AI infrastructure. contestable.ai/presentations/
Ideas I am playing around with for a new project. Realist political philosophy, imagination, design, and AI infrastructure. This might get messy.
January 16, 2025 at 8:04 PM
Ideas I am playing around with for a new project. Realist political philosophy, imagination, design, and AI infrastructure. This might get messy.
The kind of book that seems precision engineered for me to click “buy” on.
January 16, 2025 at 2:25 PM
The kind of book that seems precision engineered for me to click “buy” on.
Three books that together nicely capture what Sara Colombo and I are teaching in our TU Delft industrial design engineering master elective, "Designing Responsible AI."
October 8, 2024 at 7:00 AM
Three books that together nicely capture what Sara Colombo and I are teaching in our TU Delft industrial design engineering master elective, "Designing Responsible AI."
Had a blast running my contestability workshop at the ThingsCon Salon yesterday. Lovely participants, stimulating discussions, and interesting new design ideas. All good stuff.
September 6, 2024 at 8:17 AM
Had a blast running my contestability workshop at the ThingsCon Salon yesterday. Lovely participants, stimulating discussions, and interesting new design ideas. All good stuff.
Looking forward to running my contestability loops workshop next week as part of this ThingsCon Salon. thingscon.org/events/upcom...
August 29, 2024 at 9:01 AM
Looking forward to running my contestability loops workshop next week as part of this ThingsCon Salon. thingscon.org/events/upcom...
I just wanted to highlight the infographic made by Leon de Korte that visually explains several mechanisms that can be added to public AI systems to make them more contestable.
June 20, 2024 at 6:29 AM
I just wanted to highlight the infographic made by Leon de Korte that visually explains several mechanisms that can be added to public AI systems to make them more contestable.
It exists! Fantastic job on the printing by De Kijm and the artwork by Joost Stokhof. Holding a physical representation of five years of work in my hands is quite a thing.
May 13, 2024 at 8:11 AM
It exists! Fantastic job on the printing by De Kijm and the artwork by Joost Stokhof. Holding a physical representation of five years of work in my hands is quite a thing.
Sneak preview of art that will adorn my thesis, by Joost Stokhof.
April 4, 2024 at 6:49 AM
Sneak preview of art that will adorn my thesis, by Joost Stokhof.
Had to just get a hard copy of this one. Worth it for the cover alone.
March 12, 2024 at 11:30 AM
Had to just get a hard copy of this one. Worth it for the cover alone.